Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

A life of conflict and greediness causes a person to suffer from the rheumatism of sadness.

You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.

The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.

Money Can’t Buy Happiness but It Beats the Hell out of Poverty

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

You want your kids to have an opportunity. We're going to fight to give you that.

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way, in a compelling way.

We are only intelligent by our own measures